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September 07, 2002

Spam

Yes, I'm back at school, but that's old news... As I'm sure most of you have also noticed, spam sucks. Not the meat in a can, but the annoying unsolicited email form. They both sicken me. I mean, come on -- that stuff is gross! Anyway, the amount of smap I receive, especially in my Hotmail account, which I use for non-personal email, like newsletters and for register at various Internet sites, is atrocious. Case in point, I cleared out my mailbox around 5:30 PM yesterday (Friday) and at the moment (1:40 PM on Saturday), I have since recieved 2 "good" emails and 34 pieces of spam. I couldn't take it anymore, so I recently changed my Junk Mail Filter to Exclusive:

E-mail from addresses appearing in your Contacts or your Safe List will be delivered to your Inbox. All other mail will be delivered to your Junk Mail Folder.

Now I just have to periodically check the Junk Mail folder to ensure no good email was delivered there because I forgot to add a particular address. Even now my RIT email account gets spammed and it had been quite good in the past.

And now for some links of interest. This one I came across a few weeks ago and have been meaning to incorporate it into a blog at some point. The author of the site posts responses he's made to spam he's received. He's got quite the imagination and apparently a lot more time on his hands than me because he writes quite imaginative and lenghty responses. He's actually gotten responses from the spammers. It's quite amusing.

Today I came across an article from CNN.

The FTC encourages consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address uce@ftc.gov.

Consumers can support the consumer groups' petition and swap horror stories at a Web site set up for the purpose at www.banthespam.com.

I guess it's worth trying?

Aside: it takes me way to long to write a blog.

Posted by phil at September 7, 2002 02:05 PM

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